Posted on 09/07/2010 9:06:51 AM PDT by markomalley
Arnold Blumberg plops the zombie head on a table at the front of the small theater.
"I brought a friend," says the University of Baltimore professor, clad in an unbuttoned black shirt adorned with red skulls.
Blumberg is meeting his class for the first time and it seems appropriate that he greet them beside "old Worm Eye," undead star of the 1979 Italian cult film "Zombi 2."
It was Worm Eye's decaying visage that called to a young Blumberg from the shelf of a Randallstown video store in the 1980s. Without him, maybe Blumberg wouldn't be here today, teaching a new generation about his favorite movie monster.
Zombies are everywhere these days. Last year they hit the best-seller list in a bizarre mash-up with Jane Austen called "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies." They have inspired math professors to devise statistical models for surviving a "zombie apocalypse." This fall, they'll star in the AMC TV series "The Walking Dead."
And now, they're the subject of a new course, otherwise known as English 333, at the University of Baltimore.
"Zombies are one of the most potent, direct reflections of what we're thinking moment to moment in our culture," Blumberg tells the class in explaining why they're all here.
Students will watch 16 classic zombie films (including "Zombi 2," in which a zombie fights a shark), read zombie comics and, as an alternative to a final research paper, have the chance to write scripts or draw storyboards for their ideal zombie flicks.
(Excerpt) Read more at baltimoresun.com ...
Fine for us, but too late for the brains-eating zombies, you heartless cad.
I took a uni class “WSitchcraft & Magic” back in the 1980’s. got honors credit for it, too.
NOT my fault.
Was your coffee involved?
Hmmm?
I’m pretty certain my coffee isn’t involved in this one.
Probably.
Maybe.
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